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Examining such hot-button issues as trigger warnings, safe spaces, hate speech, disruptive protests, speaker disinvitations, the use of social media by faculty, and academic politics, "Speak Freely" describes the dangers of empowering campus censors to limit speech and enforce orthodoxy.

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Analyzes the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. This volume shows why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition.

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Intends to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse into Jewish thought. This book presents a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition.

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Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues Are there moral limits on the struggle against terror Drawing inspiration from Whitman, Dewey, and Ellison, this book aims to sketch the proper role of religious discourse in a democracy.

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Argues that among democracy's supporters there is a belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to reconcile the reality of human self-interest with the ideal of selfless commitment. This book proposes a form of "democratic realism" that recognizes democracy the regime appropriate for imperfect humans.

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The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent s

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Evaluating changes in liberal political theory and jurisprudence, particularly American liberalism after WWII, this book argues that the expansion of rights for adults has come at a high and generally unnoticed cost. It documents the indifference of liberal theorists and jurists to what were long deemed core elements of children's welfare.

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Shows the impact of people's conduct, their cultural institutions, and the policies of their governments on economic progress. This book includes the process that transforms a subsistence economy into an exchange economy, the correlation between poverty and population density, and the alleged responsibility of the West for Third World poverty.

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Offers insight into what, in Plato's view, is the central problem of life: the mortal propensity to adopt defective ways of answering the question of how to live well. This book seeks to explicate the meaning of Plato's central claim - that "only philosophy can save us."

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Takes on the task of setting forth the contours of praise and blame. The author does so by mounting an important defense of a radical theory of moral realism and offering a critical appraisal of prevailing alternatives such as determinism and behaviorism and of their conceptual shortcomings.

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Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights This book brings together a distinguished group of legal scholars and political scientists who argue that the Court's power has exceeded its appropriate bounds, and that sound republican principles require greater limits on that power.

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Shows that faith-based schools and social agencies have been particularly effective, especially in meeting the needs of the most vulnerable. This work builds a comprehensive and persuasive case for faith-based organizations playing a far more active role in American schools and social agencies.

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Begins by asking how a traditional Jew can participate politically and socially and in good faith in a modern democratic society, and ends by proposing a broad, inclusive notion of secularity. It shows how social contracts emerged, rooted in biblical notions of covenant, and how they developed in the rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods.

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Challenges those who argue that diversity or multiculturalism is about to become the governing American creed. This book presents evidence that Americans, whites and African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans, new immigrants and decedents of the Pilgrims, continue to share the same core of basic American values and aspirations.

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Explores the relation between agape (or Christian charity) and social justice. The author defines agape as the central virtue in Christian ethical thought and action and applies his insights to three concrete issues: political violence, forgiveness, and abortion.

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Offers an exploration of the Supreme Court's approach to religion, offering a close look at various cases. This book traces the history of the way the Court has rendered important decisions involving religious liberty. It offers a fresh analysis of some of the Court's most important decisions in constitutional doctrine.

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Offers an analysis and interpretation of the Court's historical understanding of religion, explaining the revolutionary change that occurred in the 1940s. This book examines how a strict separation of church and state was sustained through the opinions of Jefferson and Madison, even though their views were those of the minority.

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William Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, Victorian morality. This book clarifies the fundamental issues, and presents analyses of four central figures in the making of modern liberalism: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill.

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Defends the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. This book challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the well-being of all the people.

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Provides an overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia. This work assesses the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary ethical arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia. It explores evidence and case histories from the Netherlands and Oregon, where the practices have been legalized.